Good morning. Another sunny and breezy day awaits. A high temperature around 55. A low near 36 overnight, with frost possible after 3 AM. The Nationals host St. Louis tonight. You can find me on Bluesky, I’m @abeaujon.87 on Signal, and there’s a link to my email address below. This roundup is av ailable as a morning email newsletter. Sign up here. I can’t stop listening to: Maurice Louca, “Polaris.” Louca’s 2025 LP “Barĩy (Fera)” is a delight from start to finish. The Egyptian composer plays Rhizome tonight with DC’s TALsounds.  Take Washingtonian Today with you! I keep ridiculously long playlists on Apple Music and on Spotify of this year’s music recommendations. Here are 2025’s songs (Apple, Spotify), too. Here’s some administration news you might have blocked out: War news: Iran, the US, and Israel agreed to a two-week ceasefire last night. The Strait of Hormuz will reopen under the supervision of Iran’s military, with Iran able to charge tolls to ships passing through. Talks for a permanent peace plan will begin Friday in Pakistan, which brokered this deal. (AP) The agreement followed a day when President Trump alarmed the world with a post threatening that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” He then phoned into a rally for Viktor Orbán in Hungary, and posted endorsements in political races as allies and foes tried to discern whether he was bluffing once again. (WSJ) The off-ramp his threat eventually delivered “resolved none of the fundamental issues that led to the war.” Iran’s government and nuclear stockpile remain in place. Iran’s neighbors, battered by weeks of drone and missile attacks, are nervous about the country’s military capabilities. Here at home, gas prices are through the roof. (NYT) Global warning: Trump’s increasingly apocalyptic language as the conflict he started ground on was “the antithesis of the peacemaking image he spent much of the last year trying to cultivate as he sought a Nobel Peace Prize.” (AP) Pope Leo XIV called yesterday’s threat “truly unacceptable.” (Axios) Tucker Carlson said US officials should tell Trump to figure out the launch codes himself. (WSJ) Trump, amid a potentially civilization-destroying war, took a moment to tell a reporter on the phone that Carlson was a “low IQ person.” (New York Post) More than 70 Democratic lawmakers called for Trump to be removed from office. (NBC News) NAACP President Derrick Johnson called Trump “unfit, unwell, and unhinged.” (The Grio) Trump’s verbal antics during the war have “left deep doubts about his judgment among lawmakers in both parties.” (Punchbowl News) This isn’t over. The FBI warned law enforcement departments in some states and localities last month that Iran has the capability to attack people and buildings in the US, threats Trump downplayed. (Reuters) The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said Tuesday that Iranian hackers are working to infiltrate computer systems at water and electric utilities in the US. (Politico) And Trump reposted a message by Iran’s foreign minister, demonstrating that he’d “already accepted that Iran can impose limits on shipping in the Strait — limits that did not exist before the war began.” (Playbook) Amid clashes with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said he wouldn’t step down. (Washington Post) Administration officials called Hegseth’s wartime messaging “overly optimistic.” (Washington Post) Step back further: Here’s a gripping account of how Trump made his decision to go to war. (NYT) Administration perambulation: The Department of Justice is investigating Cassidy Hutchinson, the former White House aide who in June 2022 testified before a US House of Representatives committee investigating the January 6, 2021, riot by Trump fans at the US Capitol. (NYT) A militia Iran backs in Iraq released freelance journalist Shelly Kittleson, who was kidnapped last week. (AP) Democrats were “elated” by election results Tuesday night that “suggest the base is motivated to turn out for all manner of contests.” (Politico) A federal judge in Louisiana said he wouldn’t block the FDA from allowing mifepristone prescriptions to be fulfilled by mail—but only until an administration-directed study into the medication was complete. (AP) An 18-year-old lost an eye after he was shot by a Department of Homeland Security agent while photographing a “No Kings” rally in Los Angeles, his attorney said. (LAT) The question of how DHS spent money while Kristi Noem ran the agency is not going away. (Washington Post) Recently on Washingtonian dot com: • Chevy Chase author Nancy Lemann is somewhat baffled by the national acclaim she’s getting for her new novel, “The Oyster Diaries.” • Now that spring is here, style influencer Barnette Holston says it’s time for DC’s men in suits to embrace fuller trousers, wider lapels—and brooches. • Scientists at the University of Maryland have developed “smart underwear” to help create the world’s first large-scale data set of everyday human gas. Local news links: • The administration is still trying to deport Kilmar Abrego García, this time to Liberia. (AP) • Maryland officials say they took down a drug trafficking ring with ties to Mexican cartels. (Washington Post) • The Prince George’s County Council approved measures designed to limit ICE’s ability to operate in the county. (NBC4 Washington) • Teen takeovers in the District “have exposed fault lines among D.C.’s politicians.” (Washington Post) • Michael Estève is Bowie’s new mayor. (WTOP) • Steve Jamal Smith got almost four years for an Arlington bank robbery last February that briefly netted him $711. (ARLnow) • The Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 sued DC over money it says is due to former Circulator workers. (DC News Now) • Montgomery County banned the sale of invasive bamboo. (The MoCo Show) • Ticket prices for the Caps’ Sunday home game are shooting up on speculation it could be Alex Ovechkin‘s last tilt with the team. (Axios D.C.) • Noah Lyles got married to Junelle Bromfield last weekend. (NBC4 Washington) Wednesday’s event picks: • Cardi B plays Capital One Arena. • Learn to make ravioli at La Cosecha. • Allen Flusser discusses Ralph Lauren at MLK Jr. Library. 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